On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 10:24:39AM -0300, Marcos Pegoraro wrote: > Em qui., 5 de mar. de 2026 às 19:12, Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]> > escreveu: > > Mind you, we aren't using the tagging exactly according to the > specification so > appropriate levels of salt should be applied, for example <application> is > meant to be used for larger software packages whereas we apply it pg_dump > etc. > > > That's correct, but which ones should use different tags, and which tag would > be the correct one, because many of them certainly aren't applications. > Should we differentiate them: applications, extensions, languages, protocols, > trade names, libraries, ... ? > This is the complete list of items used by this tag: > PHP,AIX,Apache,Berkeley Postgres,Bison,Bonjour,Bucardo,bzip2,check_pgsql, > check_postgres,Continuent Tungsten,CrackLib,curl,Curl,Cygwin,Debian GNU/ > Linux,Diff,DocBook, > DRBD,Emacs,Flex,FOP,FreeBSD,GCC,GDB,Gettext,Git,GNU,GNU Gettext,GNU grep,GNU > Libtool,GSSAPI, > gzip,IBM > DB2,ICU,ICU4C,Informix,Ingres,Ispell,Kerberos,libc,libnuma,LibreSSL,libselinux,libxml2, > libxslt,Linux,Linux-PAM,LLVM,Londiste,LZ4,macOS,Magicsplat Tcl,Meson,Microsoft > Windows, > Microsoft Windows SDK,minidumps,MIT Kerberos,MySQL,NetBSD,NSS,NTLM,nXML > Mode,OpenBSD,OpenLDAP, > OpenOffice,OpenSSL,Oracle,ossp-uuid,perf,Perl,pgBadger,pglogical,pkg-config,PL/ > Proxy,PostGIS, > Postgres,POSTGRES,Postgres95,PostgreSQL,POSTGRES,Version > 4.2,Pro*C,Python,Readline,rsyslog, > SELinux,selinux-policy,Slony,Slony-I,Solaris,SSPI,Strawberry > Perl,systemd,Tcl,vi,vim, > Visual Studio,Visual Studio 2019,Visual Studio 2022,Visual Studio > Express,Windows, > Windows Debugger Tools,Windows SDK,Windows SDK > 10,WinLDAP,Wireshark,zlib,Zstandard
When to use which tag isn't always clear. When Peter Eisentraut initially did the work, he said just pick the best one, and use <literal> if you are unclear. -- Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Do not let urgent matters crowd out time for investment in the future.
